GEOSITES AND GEOSYSTEMS IN QUATERNARY AND DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES – CASE STUDIES FROM A CRATONIC SETTING AND THEIR WIDER SIGNIFICANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
MICHAEL F. THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Dynamic Landscapes ◽  
Key Sites

The rapidly expanding literature on the related subjects of geodiversity, geosites and their place in understanding and conserving our geoheritage has produced several proposed protocols for defining and valuing key sites and landscapes. Distinctions between geosites as well-defined features of our geological heritage and geodiversity sites as landscapes or geomorphosites have been proposed, while many subdivisions of the criteria for geosite recognition are also recognised. This paper uses two areas in central Africa to illustrate the realities of many landscapes, termed geosystems in this study. Largely Quaternary and present-day dynamic geosystems are considered as essential components of geodiversity and equally aspects of our geoheritage. To understand these geosystems requires detailed fieldwork including their relationships to ecology, rural land use and sensitivity to environmental change.

scholarly journals Weak or Strong Sustainability in Rural Land Use Planning? Assessing Two Case Studies through Multi-Criteria Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itziar Barinaga-Rementeria ◽  
Iker Etxano
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Multi Criteria Analysis

This paper addresses the debate regarding weak versus strong sustainability in the field of rural land use planning. Both concepts correspond to opposing paradigms on sustainability and both their fundamentals of economic roots and comparative analyses from a theoretical point of view enjoy a contrasting trajectory. However, their inclusion in land use planning has been an issue not sufficiently studied despite their relevance in the field of local development and sustainability. The aim of this study is to shed light on this gap by exploring the assessment of the degree of sustainability in rural land use planning. To this end, two case studies involving forestry in the Basque Country (Spain) have been analyzed based on a multi-criteria analysis technique. As a result, we have observed the importance of setting thresholds in the valuations of the criteria, as well as the effect of varying such thresholds above the compensability degree.

Urban and rural land use in Puerto Rico

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Martinuzzi ◽  
William A. Gould ◽  
Olga M. Ramos Gonzalez ◽  
Maya Quinones ◽  
Michael E. Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use

Rural Land Use: Traditional Agriculture or Forestry?

2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Behan ◽  
K. McQuinn ◽  
M. J. Roche
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Traditional Agriculture ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use

Rural land use problems and management options in Debre Tsyon Kebele, Ethiopia

GeoJournal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiferaw Abebe ◽  
Amare Sewnet
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Rural Land Use

scholarly journals Association between Rural Land Use Transition and Urban–Rural Integration Development: From 2009 to 2018 Based on County-Level Data in Shandong Province, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1228
Author(s):  
Zhiheng Yang ◽  
Nengneng Shen ◽  
Yanbo Qu ◽  
Bailin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
County Level ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Land Use Transition ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Integrated development in urban and rural areas has led to a new form of urban–rural interdependence, which promotes rural territorial functional evolution and land use changes. Rural land use transition, showing the synchronous development between cities and villages, is an important window through which to observe integrated development in urban and rural areas. We focus on uncovering the association between rural land use transition and urban–rural integration development (URID), put forward a dynamic relationship assumption between rural land use transformation and URID stages based on the transmission mechanism of urban–rural linkages, and undertake empirical analysis using the panel regression model with the data of county-level administrative units in Shandong Province, China. The results show that rural land use transition has maintained a close association with URID, and that the changes in cultivated land, forest land, and surface-water area are highly related to URID. There are different leading urban–rural linkages in rural areas around big-sized cities, mid-sized cities, and small-sized cities, which determine whether rural areas are in different URID stages of high, medium, or low levels. Further, rural areas can take different actions to promote URID at different stages through strengthening or introducing urban–rural linkages driven by economies of scale and deepening urbanization. This provides a reference for developing countries to formulate rural land use policies on achieving the goal of URID.

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